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Network Rail has apologised after residents in Earlswood were woken in the early hours of the morning by constant drilling at the railway station.

Neighbours have said they weren't warned about work at the station, located just south of Redhill - which included using a pneumatic drill - on Friday (November 7).

Workmen were repairing one of the platforms and residents have said there was constant drilling from 2am-4am.

Barry Goddard, of St John's Road, took his camera and went the few hundred yards from his home to see the work for himself.

"It was bloody loud," he said. "Regular noise [from the railway] is expected, we knew that when we bought the place, but not a pneumatic drill for two hours from two in the morning.

"There was no letter before, we knew nothing about this. It [the drilling] was the whole time without letting up at all. I've got a young child, luckily she wasn't woken up but myself and my wife were awake pretty quickly."

Mr Goddard said that when he went to the station, there were around eight workmen with others laying new concrete and pressing it down.

He added: "They did it as quickly as they could with as many people as they could."

Mr Goddard complained to Southern about the disturbance.

"I want feedback on why it was not planned properly, why residents weren't notified and why choose 2am to do such a noisy task in a built-up area," he said. "Who thought it was a good idea?"

A spokesman for Southern said the company was not aware of any work scheduled for the Earlswood area, however a Network Rail spokesman said the work was done by one of their contractors.

He said work to repair the platform, "specifically the tactile paving slabs used to alert visually-impaired people they are nearing the edge", had to be carried out as soon as possible.

"For safety reasons, we have to do this kind of work when services are not running and usually means working at night," he said. "In this instance we also put a block on trains travelling through the station while the work was carried out.

"However, we absolutely appreciate that people do not want to be woken up by our work and where noise is unavoidable, we will alert our neighbours.

"It appears that we fell down on that here, so I can only apologise and thank your correspondent for bringing it to our attention."

Anybody with concerns about work done by Network Rail can call the firm's helpline on 08457 114141.